CNN: Benghazi report threatens to tarnish Clinton's legacy
The year 2012 was supposed to herald Hillary Clinton's swan song, a golden departure amid speculation that she might consider another run at the presidency in 2016. Instead, the outgoing Secretary of State has found herself and her agency at the center of a scathing report about bloody attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, which left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

CNN: A Kennedy considers following in his father’s footsteps
A family friend says Ted Kennedy Jr., son of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, is seriously considering running for senate if John Kerry vacates the seat to become the next secretary of state. Kerry is said to be the frontrunner to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is leaving her post next year.

CNN: Deputy pepper sprays, detains man with Down Syndrome
His eyes stinging with pepper spray, a developmentally disabled 21-year-old man was hit and forced to the ground before being taken into custody by California sheriff's deputies in an incident that left his family Thursday demanding justice.

CNN: Blizzard blasts upper Midwest
Does the end of the world start with a snowstorm? Probably not, but a blizzard in the upper Midwest is proving potent enough to cut power to tens of thousands of homes and force schools to call it quits from Nebraska to southern Wisconsin Thursday - one day ahead of the official arrival of winter and, as it happens, the predicted Mayan apocalypse.

CNN: The list: Despite emotions, little happens legislatively after mass shootings
President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that Vice President Joe Biden will lead an administration effort to develop recommendations no later than January for preventing another mass shooting like the one in Newtown, Connecticut. But this isn't the first time the country has heard calls for action to put an end to gun violence. Most of the time, little happens legislatively. Here is a list of some of the worst mass shootings in the past and the legislative action - or inaction - following each.

CNN: Israel says it will build settlements in East Jerusalem neighborhoods
A day after the U.S. State Department strongly condemned Israel's plans to build a 1,500-unit settlement in East Jerusalem, Israel announced it would continue a plan to build settlements in other East Jerusalem neighborhoods. On Wednesday, initial approval for a total of up to 3,000 homes in Jerusalem was granted.

CNN: Syrian fight now 'overtly sectarian,' U.N. says
The civil war in Syria is morphing into a fight between ethnic and religious factions, the United Nations said Thursday. "As battles between government forces and anti-government armed groups approach the end of their second year, the conflict has been overtly sectarian," the U.N. Commission of Inquiry reported.

CNNMoney: Fallout out from fiscal cliff inaction
Congress and the White House created the fiscal cliff. And now they've waited too long to avert it, even if they do somehow eke out a deal by Dec. 31. Dragging out the negotiations this far has created needless uncertainty and pushed some individuals and businesses to try to protect themselves against something the government may or may not do.

CNNMoney: Peter Madoff, brother of Bernard, sentenced to 10 years
A federal judge sentenced Peter Madoff to 10 years on Thursday for his role in helping his brother Bernard cover up the most notorious Ponzi scheme in history. That's the sentence that federal prosecutors had sought for Peter Madoff as the result of a plea deal.

Financial Time: U.S. growth accelerates to 3.1%
The US economy grew at a faster clip than expected of 3.1 per cent in the third quarter, according to the latest revision by the commerce department, putting it in a stronger position to withstand any shock from the looming fiscal cliff.

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Gurgyl

Gun-control laws pass–bring MANUFACTURING–energy efficiency–talk.

December 21, 2012 05:57 am at 5:57 am |

Marie MD

How low has the party of he!! no sunk?
My husband has been a republican all his life. Since the shrub in 2000 he has voted Democrat and we have had a lot of fun messing up the repugs polls of him as a rino but he has had enough of his ex-party and is now changing to Democrat.
I wonder how many more citizens have finally had it with the party of the rich for the rich and only the rich and against everything good and decent that we as human beings should follow.